FOI request: Meeting held on 08/10/2020 with Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP.
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Could you please acknowledge my request is being considered.
For the meeting held on 08/10/2020 between Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP and Palantir, with purpose Demo of Foundry tool
could you please provide the following information:
• A full list of attendees, including full names and titles as well as who the attendee represents
• A copy of the meeting agenda
• Meeting notes/minutes taken during the meeting, as well as any briefing notes and papers
• Any correspondence associated with the attendees, including debriefs of the meeting via email or other forms of communication.
If it is not possible to provide the information requested due to the information exceeding the cost of compliance limits identified in Section 12, please provide advice and assistance, under the Section 16 obligations of the Act, as to how I can refine my request.
If you can identify any ways that my request could be refined I would be grateful for any further advice and assistance.
If you have any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me via email or phone and I will be very happy to clarify what I am asking for and discuss the request, my details are outlined below.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to your response.
Regards
Stephen Delahunty
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Delahunty
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Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Health and Social Care's handling of my FOI request 'FOI request: Meeting held on 08/10/2020 with Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP.'.
By law, the department should have responded by now.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Delahunty
Dear Mr Delahunty,
We apologise for the delay in our response. Please find attached the
Department of Health and Social Care's response to your recent FOI request
(our ref: FOI-1368902).
Yours sincerely,
Freedom of Information Team
Department of Health and Social Care
Dear Department of Health and Social Care,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of Department of Health and Social Care's handling of my FOI request 'FOI request: Meeting held on 08/10/2020 with Rt Hon Matt Hancock MP.'.
The company in question has already been awarded several contracts, and had them subsequently scrapped, so is not going to be involved in the development or formulation of policy:
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ournhs/...
In addition, section 35(4) sets out a specific public interest argument in favour of disclosure of factual information supporting policy decisions – as a result, normally such information ought to be disclosed.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/f...
Yours faithfully,
Stephen Delahunty
Dear Mr Delahunty,
Your requested internal review of FOI-1368902 is now complete. Please see
the attached letter for the outcome.
Yours sincerely,
FOI Internal Reviews
Department of Health and Social Care
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